First OPNFV Plugfest Was Successfully Held

[Colorado, USA, May 9-13, 2016] The first OPNFV Plugfest, hosted by CableLabs and Huawei, was held at the CableLabs' facility in Colorado, USA.

The Open Platform for Network Functions Virtualization (OPNFV) community was founded on September 30, 2014. This Linux Foundation cooperation project aims to provide a carrier-grade NFV open source integration platform for the industry. The Plugfest provides a chance to test and interconnect NFV solutions based on the OPNFV, verifies the latest OPNFV products, facilitates communications between the industry and the OPNFV community, improves OPNFV products and performance, and constructs a healthy ecosystem.

Nineteen companies, including Huawei, Ericsson, Intel, Wind River, Red Hat, China Mobile, and Orange, attended the Plugfest. Tests in the meeting include OPNFV deployment using different hardware platforms and installers, integration of the OPNFV platform and SDN controller, and OPNFV-based application deployment and lifecycle verification.

CableLabs is a well-known non-profit research and testing consortium. Mitchell Ashley, vice president of CableLabs, and Tian Hongbo, Huawei representative, welcomed guests with a speech. They appreciated the contributions and achievements made by the participants for the OPNFV community.

During the five-day testing event, the members designed and verified multiple use cases for OPNFV B-release. The event encouraged mutually beneficial collaboration, provided experimental evidence for OPNFV C-release, and accelerated the ecosystem development.

Huawei, Ericsson, Red Hat, and Mirantis used Intel Wildcat and Huawei E9000 servers to verify the installation and testing procedure of OPNFV B-release with multiple installers including Huawei Compass and Mirantis Fuel. China Mobile organized Wind River, Huawei, and Raisecom to perform interworking tests, with the help of Huawei technical support, between the OPNFV and Wind River virtualization platforms. In addition, as main contributors to testing suites Functest and Yardstick, Huawei, Orange, and Ericsson provided entire technical support. The testing suites were well verified based on OPNFV B-release and Huawei FusionSphere virtualization platform. Huawei shared the Yardstick information about its solution, direction and troubleshooting, as well as how to migrate vEPC to OPNFV B-release.

OPNFV members cooperated and shared data during testing. The members discussed hot topics, such as testing tools, SDN controllers, and further community development. Tetsuya Nakamura, board member of the OPNFV community said, "I think the Plugfest has exceeded everyone's expectations on value of the event." He thanked the members for sharing and working together, especially CableLabs and Huawei for their support.

As a platinum member and major contributor of the OPNFV community, Huawei led the development of 14 OPNFV projects, such as Bottlenecks, Compass, Octopus, DoveTail, and ONOSFW, which ranks No.1 in the community. Huawei has contributed more than a million lines of code and two OPNFV labs. It is the first company to deploy the commercial vIMS and vEPC over the OPNFV platform.

The second OPNFV Summit will be held on June 20-23 in Berlin, Germany. Huawei will further communicate and discuss with OPNFV members and the industry.